Re: Progress?

Florian Berger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.jamin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi again,

Daniel James <[email protected]>:
> 
> Surely if you have a known audio interface with
> a built-in phantom power pre-amp (e.g. Focusrite Saffire)
> and a known condenser microphone, it should be 
> possible to set both monitor level and room correcting
> EQ through software something like Jamin?

Well, I think you are mixing up things here.

JAMin and other mastering tools are used to tweak levels _within_ the
digital 16/24/whatever bit audio, but _not_ outside. You can not
simply leave out a monitor gain stage in the signal flow and hand it's
job over to the mastering tool.

The monitor gain determines the translation of the digital signal level
(tweaked in JAMin) into the sound pressure level produced by the
speakers. Thus calibration is no malarkey. It is a very clever
suggestion to freeze this translation to a fixed ratio, thus forcing
the engineer to produce a healthy and meaningful signal within the
digital audio.

> It seems a little crazy to put all that 
> extra hardware into the monitor speakers themselves,
> when the computer they are connected to is more than
> capable of running a little DSP. 

You do not need extra hardware. All you need is a gain stage. i.e. an
amplifier, and you need that anyway to use a monitor, be it active or
passive.

Best regards,

	Florian Berger, Leipzig, Germany


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